Coronas, symplectitic textures, and reactions involving aluminous minerals in gedrite - Cordierite - Garnet gneiss from Evergreen, Front Range, Colorado

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1025-1044

  Heimann, Adriana ^a   Spry, Paul G ^a   Teale, Graham S ^b   Jacobson, Carl E ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Teale and Associates   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colorado; Corona; Evergreen; Front Range; Gedrite cordierite garnet gneiss; Symplectite; Zincian hercynite

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; COOLING; DIFFUSION; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MINERALOGY;

ALUMINOUS MINERALS; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; FLUID-TO-ROCK RATIO; PEAK METAMORPHISM; POST-COLLISIONAL DECOMPRESSION; RETROGADE COOLING;

SILICATE MINERALS;

ALUMINUM COMPOUND; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORDIERITE; CORONA; CRYSTALLINITY; GARNET; GNEISS; METAMORPHISM; SILLIMANITE; TEXTURE;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751251052     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.44.5.1025     Document Type: Article

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